Casa de las Américas at LaGuardia Community College (https://www.laguardia.edu/casa/) is hosting a book signing event by Bushra Rehman, a Pakistani-American author who grew up in Corona, Queens, at Room E-111 from 12:00pm to 2:00pm on Friday, June 2, 2023. Bushra Rehman is the author of the novel Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion, an unforgettable story about female friendship and queer love in a Muslim-American community in Queens. Rehman is also the co-editor of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism. Here’s an excerpt of Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion: https://lithub.com/roses-in-the-mouth-of-a-lion/ Students who attend the …

The A Different Asian American Timeline (https://aatimeline.com) showcases a 600-year history of Asian Americans in North America. Quote: “Most Asian American timelines focus only on events related to people who arrived in the United States from Asia. However, that approach paints a misleading picture. It implies that Asian American experiences can be understood in the absence of a broader context of race and capitalism, that the history of a given population can somehow be placed outside the systems of power that organize society.”